W88 औदन-ब्रिड् । head. He now went to live with one Mr. Smith in Dacre's Lane. My visits to him there were frequent. Mr. Smith was a literary. man, and would always ask me to join him and Modhu in reading Shakespeare. While Modhu was at the Bishop's College, I used to see him every now and then. He was then moving in the congenial and charming company of the Revd. K. M. Banerjee and his wife and daughters, with all of whom he had been intimate before his conversion. There were also Mr. Ganendra Mohun Tagore and his wife (Banerjee's eldest daughter), and a young Brahmin widow who had entered the fold of Christ, and who was afterwards married to the Revd. Gopal Lal Mitra, an eminent scholar. r O SSS S LSL TrSS S LLLLL SSTSTSS S SSSS LLSSLLLSSS SSLLSSLLSSLLSSLSS S SMSSSS found him always having no great respect for the superstitions of Hinduism, I never found in him any great enthusiasm for Christianity. However uncharitable it may seem, one cannot help presuming, under such circumstances, that certain hopes must have been held out to him, directly or indirectly, for the attainment of this great object of his life, but how he fared after his baptism will be patent from the pages of your Biography. It is nevertheless a sact that the zealous interest which those who were concerned in his baptism manifested towards him before his conversion, ceased the moment their object was accomplished. People could not avoid the mpression, though an unfounded one, that it looked as if they chanced to get hold of a stray lamb which they were in too great a hurry to impound from the sold of Hinduism. Whether such really was their feeling or not it would certainly have redounded to the glory of the cause, if considering the high intelligence and merit of Modhu they had continued their interest in him to give a start in the world. It would at least have proved to the native public, intensely agitated as it was at the time, that he was really regarded, and not seemingly paraded, as a valuable accession to the sold of Christ, and not a stone to go down the 'Swash of no ground.'
- The late Revd K. M. Banerjee has left a name, that will be revered and cherished for ever, for his learning and literary qualifications and the manly stand he made for the rights of the rate-payers of Calcutta in the debates of the Municipality of the city. Had it not been for two instances of his mistaken proselytising zeal, his memory would have been embalmed for ever in the grateful hearts of his Hindu Sountrymen. The two instances in which such zeal was manifested were in the cases of the conversions of Modhu. Soodu in Dutt (Datta) and Ganendra Mohun Tagore. The feats he accomplished in the interests of Christianity were no doubt, in his mind meritorious acts, but it is impossible for Hindus to believe that act to be meritorious, or that zeal to be other than mistaken, which destroys for ever the peace and happiness of a whole family. Then in the case of Babu Ganendra Mohun Tagore he equally shut his eyes as he did in that of Modhu, to the awful consequences that would accrue both to Ganendra Mohun and to his father,-a wealthy and powerful man, one who was too fastidious to stand, as he chose to say, the cant of evangelisation in the mouth of a preacher of an intolerable and uncatholic religion which deals Salvation to the Christian only, and eternal damnation to the heathen, however pious and virtuous he may be.
